Ep. 465 - The Media Lie About Everything
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The mainstream media has been lying to us about everything. On the same day, the New York Times reported that President Trump was redefining Judaism as a nationality, sparking widespread hysteria and comparisons to the Nazis. Then, as the cherry on top of the fake news Sunday, CNN's Don Lemon had a meltdown on air over a meme, over nothing.
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Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz testified before the Senate yesterday on his report.
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And it turns out, you're going to be shocked to hear this,
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that the mainstream media have been lying to us about everything.
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On the same day, the New York Times reported that President Trump was redefining Judaism as a nationality,
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sparking widespread hysteria, comparisons to the Nazis,
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before it turned out that the report was completely false.
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Then, as the cherry on top of the fake news Sunday,
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CNN's Don Lemon had a meltdown on air over a meme, over nothing.
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We will examine why and how the fake news lies so well.
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Then, a new study shows the loneliness epidemic is affecting the young more than the old.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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The media have been lying to us about everything.
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Now, I know that's not exactly a man bites dog story.
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But so many fake stories, so many important fake stories, collapsed yesterday all at once.
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I want to begin, before we get to the actual meat of these lies,
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I want to start this delicious meal of fake news with the dessert first.
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I want to start it with that little cherry on top of the chocolate sundae.
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I want to start it with CNN, where CNN's Don Lemon decided to skip over all of the actual news
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and have a breakdown, an on-air hysterical breakdown,
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because President Trump's campaign team tweeted out a meme.
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In addition to all the lies and all the blustering at tonight's rally,
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Trump's war room posted a meme on Twitter today
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showing Trump as the supervillain Thanos from the Marvel Avengers movies,
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On this solemn day, I recall that the first order of business for members of...
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I cannot believe that I'm even having to report this on the news.
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The key takeaway, though, here for me is that Don Lemon and CNN and the mainstream media overall
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They say that Trump is behaving in an immature manner.
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Yeah, you are behaving like you're in junior high school, Don Lemon.
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He says in there, he says, I can't believe I actually have to cover this.
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This is a Twitter account run by one of the Trump campaign officials
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tweeting out a funny meme on the internet, which is made for memes.
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You're choosing to cover that because you're a fake news organization.
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So you don't want to cover the good jobs numbers.
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You don't want to cover the devastating Horowitz testimony.
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The Nets didn't even cover the Horowitz testimony.
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They've been streaming the ridiculous impeachment testimony,
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back-to-back wall-to-wall coverage for weeks now.
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And then the devastating Horowitz testimony on the abuses in the FBI and the DOJ.
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you saw when you, when you looked really closely into the media,
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which were basically blocking out the Horowitz testimony,
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when you were streaming it from C-SPAN and getting it on the internet,
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you could see that the media story on this whole three-year witch hunt,
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I'll use Trump's term, because Trump's term is right.
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This whole three-year witch hunt, the media story collapsed.
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And it collapsed in particular with the testimony of the Justice Department Inspector General,
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So the mainstream media have been telling us for months now
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that there was no problem with the Russia investigation.
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They've now told us since the IG released his report over just the past few days
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that the IG report vindicated James Comey, vindicated the FBI officials,
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vindicated all the people who were spying on the Trump campaign.
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So Michael Horowitz, let's get it in your own words, the words of the Inspector General.
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Did the Obama administration illegally spy on the Trump campaign?
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Is it fair to say there came a point to where surveilling Carter Page became unlawful?
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The court has this report and will make that decision.
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If you don't have a legal foundation to surveil somebody and you keep doing it, is that bad?
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Whatever illegal surveillance means, they did it.
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I love this answer because Michael Horowitz wants to be measured.
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The media have just been talking about what a great guy he is because his report that nobody
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has read, his 400 page report that not a soul has actually read is, is said to have vindicated
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Was what the FBI did with regard to FISA abuse, was it bad?
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William Barr, the Attorney General, made a joke about that.
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He said, spying is not intrinsically a bad thing.
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It depends on whether the spying was legitimately predicated.
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It depends on whether the spying was legal or illegal.
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So he says, it's bad, it's illegal, and it was illegal surveillance, which is to say,
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Then Lindsey Graham, Lindsey Grahambo, asks Horowitz, the media has been reporting that
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your report exonerates the FBI and all those senior officials.
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Do they look good after this report or do they look really, really bad?
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How would you describe the behavior here of knowing that the subsource disavows the dossier
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that was the primary reason you got a warrant, finding that a lawyer doctored an email to
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keep the investigation going in a way unfair to Mr. Page?
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It certainly better not be routine, and I don't know any reason to think it is routine.
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By the way, I should just mention, I love the Senate Judiciary Committee because you get
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Lindsey Grahambo, you get Lindsey Graham 2.0, and you also get Ted Cruz.
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You get Mr. Zodiac himself, who runs roughshod over the leftist case here on the IG report.
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He is so in his element when he's in these Senate hearings, and he goes even further than
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He asks Horowitz, let's say that it wasn't protected people.
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Let's say it wasn't James Comey and very protected people in the FBI and the DOJ who were illegally
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If it were just an ordinary person, Joe Blow off the street, who falsified these court
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He says, would an ordinary person who acted in the way that these FBI officials acted,
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In any ordinary circumstance, if a private citizen did this, fabricated evidence, and
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by the way, what he inserted was not just slightly wrong, it was 180 degrees opposite
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So the intelligence agency said, this guy is a source, and he inserted, this guy is not
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If a private citizen did that in any law enforcement investigation, if they fabricated evidence
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and reversed what it said, in your experience, would that private citizen be prosecuted for
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fabricating evidence, be prosecuted for obstruction of justice, be prosecuted for perjury?
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They certainly would be considered for that if there was an intentional effort to deceive
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On this one, I'm going to defer, because as we noted here in the sentence you indicated,
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we referred that over to the attorney general and the FBI director for handling.
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Now, this is an important answer here, because Horowitz, look, he's not, he doesn't want to
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So he answers right away, would, would an ordinary citizen be prosecuted for this?
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Well, you know, we would certainly look into it, we would have to check it out, but I don't
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want to make that final judgment because I'm the inspector general, that's not my job, that's
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the job of the justice department and the attorney general.
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And by the way, we've turned this matter over to the DOJ and the attorney general.
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Now you see the key here, what the media have wanted you to believe since the IG report came
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They didn't find evidence of this awful partisanship.
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So nevermind, nothing to see here moving along.
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And what Bill Barr and the prosecutor, John Durham and conservatives have been saying is
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the IG is not tasked with going over and, and pursuing criminal investigations.
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That's what we have this separate criminal investigation for.
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And what the left has been saying is, oh, you're just trying to spin it.
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You're just trying to, uh, save face after this IG report doesn't, doesn't implicate our
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And now you have the IG himself saying, it's not my job to pursue criminal investigations.
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It means there's some bad news coming for the people who tried to overthrow the president
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Horowitz of his own accord, not even in the questioning, but in his own statement, admitted
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He admitted that the warrant to spy on the Trump campaign came entirely from the Democrat
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DNC, Hillary Clinton funded Steele dossier, 100%.
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For example, the Crossfire Hurricane team obtained information from Steele's primary subsource
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in January, 2017, that raised significant questions about the reliability of the Steele reporting.
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This was particularly noteworthy because the FISA applications relied entirely on information
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from the, from the Steele, I'm sorry, from the primary subsource's reporting to support
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the allegation that Page was coordinating with the Russian government on 2016 U.S. presidential
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However, the FBI did not share this information with department lawyers, and it was therefore
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omitted from the last two renewal applications.
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What that means is, you had the Steele dossier.
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This was contracted through Fusion GPS by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC.
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They engaged with a foreign, a former foreign intelligence analyst who himself was dealing
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with even other foreign intelligence sources, namely in Russia.
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And they compiled this hit, hit piece, this oppo uncorroborated document on President Trump.
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These crooked officials at the FBI then used the Democrat funded oppo research as the entire
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And then when it became clear that so much of this was bunk, that it was unwarranted, that
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the, the spying on Carter Page, generally speaking, was unwarranted.
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They omitted all of that information, including their source, including the funding for their
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That's a few too many errors to chalk it up to accidents.
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That's a little too specific in those errors to chalk it up to accidents.
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This stinks to high heaven, which is why I strongly suspect Michael Horowitz included that
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in his statement and why he mentioned that this has been referred for criminal investigation
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On top of all of this, as the whole Russia hoax formally collapses, the whole predicate,
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the whole basis for spying on the Trump campaign collapses.
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There is a report out of the Office of Management and Budget.
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The Office of Management and Budget out of the White House releases a legal memo
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So not Russia, not the three years ago attempt to overthrow Trump, but the three weeks ago
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The current attempt, they released a legal memo indicating that the delay in US aid to
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Ukraine, which ostensibly was the source of this whole nonsense, was completely routine.
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For decades, OMB has routinely used its apportionment authority to prevent funds from being used.
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Often, in managing appropriations, OMB must briefly pause an agency's legal ability
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to spend those funds for a number of reasons, including to ensure that the funds are being
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spent efficiently, that they are being spent in accordance with statutory directives,
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or to assess how or whether funds should be used for a particular activity.
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Now, we should have already known this because the Democrats actually are not pursuing the
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They could have charged Trump with extortion in regard to his phone call with Ukraine.
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They didn't do it because they don't have any evidence for that.
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So instead, they're charging with two articles of impeachment.
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I mean, it's as vague a charge as you can get, and obstruction of Congress because only
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some people testified before the impeachment inquiry.
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By the way, those people, all of whom either hadn't talked to Trump about Ukraine or said
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explicitly that there was no quid pro quo from Trump's mouth.
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But because of that, because only some people testified, that's obstruction of Congress,
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which, by the way, is the president's job, is to obstruct Congress.
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So we already should have known this Ukraine thing is bunk, but we get this memo out of
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A major fake news story coming out of the New York Times yesterday.
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Anyway, this was the tweet that the Times sent out.
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President Trump will sign an executive order defining Judaism as a nationality, not just
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a religion, bolstering the Education Department's efforts to stamp out boycott Israel movements
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Now, in the New York Times' defense, I can't believe I'm uttering that statement.
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They do frame the second half of this story as a help from the White House for the Jewish
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The first half of the story includes what should be just the facts.
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President Trump will sign an executive order defining Judaism as a nationality, not just
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This caused a lot of concern, a lot of hysteria on the left because it evoked images of Nazi
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Germany, othering Jews and making them seem not American, not part of this country.
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This is just another step in those brown shirt Trump supporters campaign of anti-Semitism and
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Molly Jong Fast, who is a left-wing writer, she tweeted out, quote, my nationality is American
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and this feels like it's ultimately going to be bad for Jews.
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A lot of other people were tweeting out all sorts of things.
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This is how it begins, this is how it began in Germany, they're going to be othered, it's
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in Germany you had to have Jewish on your passport and that's what America's coming to.
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And then it turned out, the story's completely false.
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If you read the executive order, Trump did not define Judaism as a nationality.
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If you read the executive order, all he said was that under Title VI, where you can't discriminate
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against people on the basis of race or nationality.
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It doesn't say that you can't discriminate against people on the basis of religion.
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Trump said that his administration will treat Jews for the purposes of these civil rights
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protections as though they had the same protections as people on the basis of race or nationality.
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A wonderful thing, very nice thing to do for the Jewish people.
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Obviously, there were a lot of Jewish activists who were in the White House when President Trump
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It was the left and the Times kind of started it, but it was the left more broadly.
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They were actually even more guilty of this than the New York Times.
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They took a story that was about Trump helping Jews and they managed to turn it, not just a
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little bit, but 180 degrees in the opposite direction and turn it into a story about how
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They have no credibility on this stuff whatsoever.
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What this means is we have to not be taken in by the fancy people who wear the ties and the
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He would never behave like a child on television.
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He would never just be a hack partisan who's attacking the president for partisan reasons.
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And time after time, I think even many conservatives want to give deference or subconsciously or just
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brought in to give deference to what you read in the paper, what you read online, what you
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At this point, the partisan political operatives and politicians in the Trump administration have
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much, much more credibility than the New York Times and CNN and the Washington Post and
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I'm not saying that President Trump never stretches the truth.
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President Trump's Twitter account has a greater record of honesty and journalistic credibility
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than these partisan hacks in the mainstream media.
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So what we need to do is tune out of that stuff.
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It's, I think it's perfectly great to read honestly left-wing news sources and opinion
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And I think you should read honestly right-wing news sources and commentary.
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But for the people who are pretending to report the news, they have no credibility.
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They have hollowed out these institutions from within.
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They are just zombie New York Times and zombie Washington Post who are not who they used to
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Before we go to the mailbag, I have to mention this survey because it tells us a lot about
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our culture and it actually tells us about some of the political debates we've been having.
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A study out of George Mason University of 1,200 people, it's 1,200 Americans, found that
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one in three young people below the age of 25 feel lonely, whereas only 11% of adults older than 65
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This is on top of a survey out of the United Kingdom, which found that 40%, 4-0, of young
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people, 16 to 24, feel lonely often or very often.
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Historically speaking, older people, people of a certain age, you know, beginning 65 plus,
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certainly by 75, certainly into your 80s, feel lonely.
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They begin to feel lonely because they're kind of set in their ways.
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I mean, the researchers conclude our research shows that loneliness is a subjective mental
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On top of this, we find antidepressant use up 65% in 15 years, the highest rises among
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Teen suicide up 70%, 0, 7-0% over just the past few years.
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Marriage rates declining, birth rates declining.
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You can look at the technological aspects that isolate us.
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You can look at some of the social aspects that isolate us.
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It gets to what we've been talking about all week when we're talking about anything from
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internet pornography to the role of government in politics and culture.
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And I listed liberty, equality, justice, and other.
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Now, I think some people said liberty because liberty is such a broadly defined word.
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The great conservative political philosopher Edmund Burke said, of all the political concepts,
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liberty has indefinite numbers, infinite numbers of definitions.
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When we talk about liberty, the kind of liberty that we like, we're talking about ordered liberty.
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We're not just talking about going to Drag Queen Story Hour every night.
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We're talking about the kind of liberty that allows you to flourish and live a good life
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and order your will towards something that's good and not toward, you know, just sitting
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in a ditch somewhere doing drugs and looking at internet porn.
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Even so, we should be more precise about our language.
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The purpose of government has a real answer, especially in America.
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The father of our constitution, James Madison, answered this in Federalist 51.
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James Madison, writing in Fed 51, wrote, justice is the end of government.
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It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.
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So liberty plays a very important role in justice.
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You're not going to have justice without liberty.
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But merely unfettered individual liberty, especially if it's unmoored from the moral order, is not the purpose of the American government.
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There's actually been a sort of consensus on the right and left.
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And the consensus has been that the purpose of government is liberty.
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They're incoherent about it, but they believe it.
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So for the left, they say, we want totally expanded social liberty.
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Sexual liberation, women's liberation, abortion on demand, reproductive freedom is what they call it, right?
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So they want social liberty like redefining marriage, abortion all the time, porn everywhere, casual sex, all those sort of things.
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What conservatives have done is they've taken the flip side of that coin.
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They've said, yes, the purpose of government is just untrammeled liberty.
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And so we want economic liberty, tax cuts, deregulation, free trade.
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That all puts the cart before the horse because liberty is very, very important for a purpose.
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This is what James Madison, who is the father of the Constitution, said in the Federalist Papers, which unfortunately nobody reads.
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There is something bigger than that, which is justice.
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There is something bigger than that, which is call it ordered liberty, social liberty.
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Secondly, the recognition that we're not all just atoms floating around in space, that we actually do live in society and we don't want to be tyrannized.
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We don't want to live in some collectivist hellscape.
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But we actually do have bonds to one another, to our families, to our communities, to our state, to our government, to our people, to our civic associations.
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We have to recognize that because if you simply take this hyper-individualistic, atomistic idea of liberty as the total end of government, what you're going to end up with is a loneliness epidemic.
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What you're going to end up with is a government that says that we have the right, the duty to define reality for ourselves.
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That's what Justice Kennedy said in Planned Parenthood v. Casey decades ago, that we have the right to define reality for ourselves, define what it is to be a man or a woman, or that a baby is not really a baby.
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We all love freedom, but freedom has a higher purpose.
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I have a piece on this at the Daily Wire if you want some more on it, which is called The Porn Debate Isn't Really About Porn.
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But it speaks to a lot of the social ills that we're seeing.
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And we've got to start taking a deeper view of politics than maybe we have in the past couple decades.
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We have to start taking the deeper view that we had 50 years ago before our culture and our politics got so hollowed out and so shallow.
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I was wondering if you could explain what critical theory is.
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It gets mentioned very often, but rarely explained.
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Critical theory is a highly politicized academic approach that was developed by Marxists of the Frankfurt School in the 1930s.
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It has been popularly referred to by the literary critic Harold Bloom, who recently died and was a lifelong liberal.
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Critical theory is where you just deconstruct your culture.
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Where, for instance, you approach literature not as you should, which is through love.
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You read Walt Whitman to find out how racist and sexist and evil he was.
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And this has been the approach, not just to literature, but to history, to political science, to sociology, to so many of these academic departments.
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Critical theory has taken over all of the academy right now.
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Not merely because it's so shallow and ideological and partisan, but because it actually inverts the purpose of learning.
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You know, any theory of education or theory of knowledge that begins with the premise that you have to hate what you're studying is dead wrong.
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The only way that you're going to learn anything, the only way that you're going to grow in knowledge, is through love.
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Actually, somebody who explains this very well is Dante, speaking of great literature.
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You know, what Dante shows us is that unity of learning, of growth in knowledge, of education, and of love.
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The famous image that ends the poem is the love that moves the sun and the other stars.
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When I read Dante, it is because I'm drawn by a love of that.
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And that love leads me to a deeper understanding.
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That's what should be going on in the Academy, and it's not.
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As a fan of Gavin McGinnis, I've heard a lot about the no fap and no wanks movements.
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The fact that he is against porn is often trotted out as proof of his Nazi nature.
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You know, you get Gavin, who is a comedian, who's telling people, don't look at porn because
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it's going to make you into like a weak little creepy degenerate.
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And they say, see, if you don't look at runaway girls being abused on video all the time,
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Regardless of what you think about whether the government should get involved on the local
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or the state or federal level or not get involved at all.
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You don't want to be a guy who closes the blinds and looks at poor runaway girls having strange
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things done to them by strange men on high resolution video.
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So Gavin comes out there and says, hey, don't do that.
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They do it because the left requires sexual libertinism.
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The left really benefits from this libertinism.
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So they'll say, you actually, some people who ostensibly are on the right wing even said
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They said, if you've ever looked at porn, you can't say that we should ban porn.
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If you've ever looked at porn, who are you to say porn is a bad thing?
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And the left also promotes libertinism because the left exists to break down the traditional
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The left exists in opposition to the tradition.
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So any way to break down that tradition, whether that's marriage, whether that's traditional
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relationships, whether that's traditional sexual desires, whether that's traditional
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behavior, which says, hey, maybe restrain your appetites and your lusts and your sexual
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appetite, they don't want any of those restraints.
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They want to break down all of the restraints so that once the traditional structures, which they blame for all the evils of the world, the patriarchy and the hierarchies and the thisarchy and the thatarchy, once that's all breaking down, then they will just have a ton of atomized individuals living in cultural rubble.
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From Rustem, dear Michael, out of the broom closet, Knowles, I'd like your thoughts on a debate that is currently raging in my country, the Netherlands, where a child born with severe and usually terminal birth defects can be euthanized.
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The government in my country is considering easing up the laws that allow for the murder of those children by physicians.
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I believe this practice is wrong, but anyone that shares my view is castigated as an uncaring demon that wants to let children suffer.
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As always, love the show and a Merry Christmas.
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I think woe to you that call evil good and good evil that put darkness for light and light for darkness that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
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I'm not surprised at all that these genuine ghouls who are advocating the legalization of killing children are calling you a bad guy because you want to protect children.
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And obviously, the euthanasia laws are abhorrent.
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This is what happens when you compromise on human dignity in your politics.
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So it's what happens when you embrace abortion, then why shouldn't you embrace euthanasia?
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You're saying you can kill innocent people at one stage of life.
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And if you've embraced euthanasia for old people who are going to die in three days, why not embrace euthanasia for people who might die in three months?
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If they're suffering, why not embrace euthanasia for people who are depressed?
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Why not embrace euthanasia for people who are born defective in their minds?
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I don't think they're defective in an ultimate sense, but they seem to.
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Netherlands has been leading the way down that dark path.
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All of that is premised on the idea that suffering is intrinsically evil and the primary purpose, if not the only purpose of life, is to feel pleasure.
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The purpose of life is not to feel pleasure and suffering is not only not intrinsically evil, but it can actually be helpful because it helps us grow.
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It prompts the moral quality of how you respond to suffering.
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Do you respond in a bad way or do you respond in a good way?
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This is what's so insidious about this, is everybody suffers a lot of the time.
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You don't know that when you see people and they tell you, oh, everything's great.
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I feel a lot of people are suffering a lot of the time.
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And so if you say that if someone suffers, they can end their lives, if you accept that premise,
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then it's just a matter of time before they come for us.
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Whether through, in the case of the Netherlands, actually holding people down and euthanizing them, meaning murdering them, as has happened,
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or through the cultural pressure and the cultural persuasion to off yourself if you're not feeling happy all the time.
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Good job standing up for life and for the good.
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Does the Constitution need new amendments of separation of powers between the media and the politicians?
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Obviously, it's unfortunate that the media are such hacks for the politicians that they so carry water for the Democratic Party.
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On the other hand, I got to hand it to reporters who go out there and get their stories.
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You know, in some ways, you get the stories by getting drinks with a politician.
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At the very least, befriending a politician, getting in their good graces.
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I mean, good, dogged reporters are actually able to kind of penetrate these circles and get good scoops.
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The media are not addressed in the Constitution.
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But we should have a code of ethics for journalists.
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And for the journalistic outlets that do have codes of ethics, New York Times, Washington Post,
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it would be nice if they actually abided by them.
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And if they don't, we'll just have to tune them out.
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The press has not only been caught lying, but is now lying about lying, and then lying about lying about having lied.
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And yet Trump goes on appointing judges, making the economy sing, and defending our civil rights.